From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Updating glib2.0
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 19:18:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <074318ee-6ee1-c1c1-c3ee-cff757c6f51a@cornell.edu> (raw)
I've been planning to adopt gimp and some related build dependencies. My reason
is that I use gimp and would like to see it kept up to date.
I thought I had all the prerequisites I needed. But when I built gimp, I
discovered that it used two functions, g_set_weak_pointer and
g_date_time_new_from_iso8601, that were introduced in glib-2.56.
[gimp's configure.ac says that it only requires glib 2.54.2, but this seems to
be wrong. Cygwin's glib is at 2.54.3. Fedora's is at 2.64.3, which is the
latest upstream release.]
I'd appreciate some advice about how to proceed. I'm not interested in adopting
all of GNOME, and it probably doesn't make sense for different components of
GNOME to be adopted by different people.
A short-term solution (from my personal POV) would be for me to do a
non-maintainer update of glib to 2.56, assuming that's doable without messing up
other GNOME components.
A better solution (again from my personal POV) would be for someone to adopt
GNOME and update it to its latest release.
Ken
next reply other threads:[~2020-05-22 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-22 23:18 Ken Brown [this message]
2020-05-23 18:08 ` Ken Brown
2020-05-27 14:15 ` Ken Brown
2020-05-28 11:20 ` Achim Gratz
2020-05-29 2:29 ` Ken Brown
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